Anthropology

Anthropology explores similarities and differences among societies around the world, and looks at how people come to live in the world in the way that they do: the social and cultural factors that underlie our everyday ways of being and thinking.

Anthropology is for students who are curious about how people get along (or not), how and why communities come to be the way they are and why they change, why different kinds of people have such different lives, how people can work together to make the world more just and sustainable. Anthropology is also for students interested in gaining first hand knowledge on local field trips, semester-long placements as researchers in community organizations or at international field schools.

Courses include the anthropology of childhood; development; visual media and performance; Asian societies; international health; global politics; illness, culture and society; games, sports and cultures; the anthropology of medicine; language and meaning; the environment; and contemporary ethnography.

Degree offered: Bachelor of Arts

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